Former Air Raid Shelter To Rear Of Numbers 28 And 30

TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES YARRA ROAD (north side, off)

8/26 Former air-raid shelter to rear of Nos 28 and 30 II

Air-raid shelter, now garage. 1916 for Joseph Forrester. Concrete, incorporating section of brick garden walls on north and south sides; turf-covered steel- reinforced concrete roof. Rectangular on plan, approximately 4 metres by 5 metres; single room incorporating two entrance lobbies or cubicles. Blocked narrow original door in north wall. Inserted C20 garage door in west wall. North and south sides each have a pair of ornate terracotta ventilator grilles. Low segmental- arched roof. Interior: Basket-arched tunnel-vaulted room with a blast-proof entrance lobby in the north-east corner, both approximately 1 metre square on plan, with the lower sections of their curved walls removed; the north-east lobby with brick blocking to the former door in the north wall. All walls are approximately. 0.5 metre thick. Built as a private shelter against Zeppelin bombs after a series of raids on the town in April 1916, the most serious of which killed 31 soldiers billeted in a nearby chapel. Forrester, a borough councillor and chemist, achieved fame for his Forrester's Ferric Food tonic, manufactured at his nearby shop fronting onto Alexandra Road (now demolished). M Hart, Cleethorpes and the Meggies, 1981, pp 29-30; C Ekberg, The Book of Cleethorpes, 1986 p 96.

Listing NGR: TA3069208677